More than a month after a firestorm broke out between the United States and France over the Biden administration’s colossal reckless torpedoing of a major French-Australian submarine deal, the vice president landed in Paris to try to mend things. And so far it works. Harris … Read More

We lived in a village about an hour’s drive from Banjul, the capital, and had limited access to many educational opportunities. The few we had gave us an advantage over our parents who could not read or write – or even speak English. While our … Read More

It is ironic that a pandemic that has made us hyper-cautious about the physical health of our families has also taken a more insidious health burden on our stress. Many relatives feel increased anxiety, depression and burnout. Although the pandemic may have pushed more individuals … Read More

My grandmothers had fled the Russian Revolution in 1917 and fled to Iran in search of freedom. And to some extent, they had found it. My father had become a successful ballroom dance instructor in Tehran and taught Muslim couples cha-cha and tango. My mother … Read More

But I was lucky. Several of my colleagues and allies – including journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov – got bullets, not bruises. And so have many others mixed in and out of jail. This is actually the enduring reality for those … Read More

In late December 2020, when Trump slammed wildly in an attempt to contest his election loss, Clark served as a future saboteur in the Department of Justice. According to ABC News, Clark worked out a fake letter claimed that the Department of Justice had identified … Read More

In astonishing contrast, Rodgers’ response followed the news last week that he was unvaccinated and contracted Covid-19 has been the opposite of a strong leader. While performing on SiriusXM’s “The Pat McAfee Show” on Friday, he slammed critics like a “wake-up call”, hurled medically unjustifiable … Read More

“The Crown” did not shy away from the darkness. Diana’s bulimia, her loneliness and especially the dissolution of her marriage to Prince Charles were all examined in raw detail. But in a decade or so so-called history covered by fourth season of “The Crown,” the … Read More

Claudia Escobar Mejía, a researcher at George Mason University, was an appeals judge in Guatemala. When the congress leader tried to bribe her, she could not keep quiet. Escobar Mejía is a dissident who shares stories about the first time she realized she had to … Read More

Uganda is heavily dependent on agriculture for people’s livelihoods, and that means rising droughts, floods, landslides and even locusts swarm, all driven by global warming, have caused countless people to lose their income – and even their lives – in the last decade. And it’s … Read More